Real-time ride dispatch with geospatial matching, surge pricing, and event-driven driver allocation at massive scale.
Difficulty: advanced
Tags: real-time, geospatial, event-driven, microservices, oci
Uber processes millions of ride requests daily, matching riders with drivers in under 10 seconds using geospatial indexing and real-time location tracking. Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the dispatch system combines a matching engine on OKE that optimizes for ETA, surge pricing algorithms that balance supply and demand, and event-driven architecture with OCI Streaming handling location updates flowing at thousands of events per second. Best suited for teams building location-aware marketplaces that require sub-second matching at city-wide scale.